diff --git a/reactos/include/reactos/version.cmake b/reactos/include/reactos/version.cmake
index 641fb00eafb..027be3c584f 100644
--- a/reactos/include/reactos/version.cmake
+++ b/reactos/include/reactos/version.cmake
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 macro(today RESULT)
     if(CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
-        execute_process(COMMAND "${REACTOS_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/getdate.exe" OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${RESULT})
-        string(STRIP ${${RESULT}} ${RESULT})
+        execute_process(COMMAND wmic os get LocalDateTime OUTPUT_VARIABLE RAWDATE)
+        string(REPLACE "\n" ";" RAWDATE ${RAWDATE})
+        LIST(GET RAWDATE 1 RAWDATE)
+        string(SUBSTRING ${RAWDATE} 0 8 ${RESULT})
     elseif(CMAKE_HOST_UNIX)
         execute_process(COMMAND "date" "+%Y%m%d" OUTPUT_VARIABLE ${RESULT})
         string(STRIP ${${RESULT}} ${RESULT})
diff --git a/reactos/tools/getdate.c b/reactos/tools/getdate.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 892a8ea40fa..00000000000
--- a/reactos/tools/getdate.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <time.h>
-void main()
-{
-  char curdate[9];
-  time_t now;
-  struct tm *tm_now;
-
-  time(&now);
-  tm_now=localtime(&now);
-  strftime(curdate, sizeof(curdate), "%Y%m%d", tm_now);
-  printf("%s", curdate);
-}
diff --git a/reactos/tools/getdate.cmd b/reactos/tools/getdate.cmd
deleted file mode 100644
index 324e24d6ece..00000000000
--- a/reactos/tools/getdate.cmd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-gcc getdate.c -o getdate.exe -s
diff --git a/reactos/tools/getdate.exe b/reactos/tools/getdate.exe
deleted file mode 100644
index d3e80076f83..00000000000
Binary files a/reactos/tools/getdate.exe and /dev/null differ